9.4. Windows NT file servers
If you have existing Windows NT file servers, you have 2 choices to enable file sharing with your Aptus clients.
- SMB client
Linux support SMB protocols which allows your Aptus clients mount to Windows SMB file systems directly.
You may want to create a mount in the group fstab. See Example A-6.
- Microsoft Unix services
Microsoft has a Unix service package which it has an NFS service, your Aptus clients can just
treat NT servers as NFS servers.
Either way will work, but you have notice the security issues about this. Since Microsoft doesn't
support the Unix file mask and permissions, where there is no uid and gid information in each file and directory, you might have to configure
the mount to be activate during each login, you will also need to run mount.nfs or smbmount as setuid root to do this. We strongly suggest
you top migrate all Microsoft NT file servers to Linux with lower cost of license, higher in performance, better reliability and better
system integration. If you are only using NT as a file server, you can migrate the server to Linux and re-enable Samba on Linux which will
perform the same.
